I have heard that large hardisk >= 1TB are not recommended on the server because they can cause synching issues if one fails + their chances of failure is greater over a longer period of time as the ...

I'm used to install Linux on regular systems but it's my first storage configuration.
Indeed, I'm trying to install Open Media Vault on an IBM System x3650 M3. I'm a bit confused with the LSI Megaraid ...

I have a RAID6 array with 1 logical drive. 3.7TB. The partition has been lost. I've tried several program to recover the partition. The most promising of the bunch was MiniTool Partition Wizard. It ...

I have a Dell R720 with two 136GB drives set up on an existing virtual disc running RAID 1. I've run out of room, purchased two additional 600GB SAS 15K drives I'd like to set up for RAID 1 also to be ...

I've got a HP ML350 G5 server running 6 disks as two RAID-5 configurations. This server has been notifying me of an empty battery on the E200i card. This seems to result in disabled cache: read and ...

I have a Dell Poweregde R805 Server that came with two 147GB 10K SAS drives. To stack up the storage on this machine, i purchased two SATA drives (HGST Travelstar Z7K500, 500GB, 7200RPM, SATA III). ...

We have 2 x 600GB SAS 15K drives configured in RAID 1 through a PERC H710 RAID controller in a PowerEdge R620. Question. Can we convert this to RAID 0 without having need for a OS reinstall? If so, ...

I'm new to system administration and I'm not really sure if this is possible. Our server supports up to 4 x 2 TB drives. We need a drive larger than 2TB for a particular use. We also need redundancy ...

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I have a LSI 9265-8i controller. It's been running pretty well for two years. More recently it looks like a drive may be failing - no errors reported and no media issues reported when viewing ...

I have some fresh out of the box HP Proliant Generation 8 servers which have the HP 420i disk controllers built into the motherboard. Once upon a time the disk controller was a PCI card but now in Gen ...

I purchased a couple R610 servers which has been a constant source of frustration lately. I got a heck of a deal on them with a single 2.93 Ghz processor and 96GB RAM, so I cannibalized one and got a ...

Dell ships R710 with older RAID card H700 which has LSI 2108 chip and ships R720 with H710 card which has LSI 2208 chip. LSI 2208 is much better with SSDs in terms of performance.
I was wondering if ...

I have a DL380G6 running great with a P800 and P410i, but I wanted to upgrade the P800 to a P812. I now have both controllers plugged in. In the BIOS I have the option of selecting the 410i or the 800 ...

I'm currently putting together some ideas for a new VMHost using ESXi with RAID 5 to replace 3 aging ESXi hosts that have no RAID. However I can't seem to find any good info explaining how to monitor ...

I'm setting up a RAID1 array of two new 4TB hard drives.
I heard somewhere previously, that making a RAID1 array of new identical hard drives bought at the same time, increased the chance that they ...

Does anybody have experience dealing with raid config on these new Thinkpad servers?
My problem is the following: In order to be able boot this server I must put the drives to RAID1 to create an SCM ...

I've been back and forth with Dell about their RAID cards for a PowerEdge R710 server. So far half the customer service people who I spoke too said it would work, the other half said no.
My question ...

I have a HP server, which has a hardware RAID array (that mostly isn't being used for raiding, the disks are just passed through to the Linux OS). I have 6 SSD disks. 2 are riad mirrored together by ...

Would it be possible to replace HP P410 raid card with a HP P420 raid card while keeping the data?
I've replaced P410 with P410 without any issues obviously. I believe they use the same software, so ...

I have hardware raid 5 of 12 disks, 2 of them died and the data is not accessible anymore.
I was told that even though 2 disks died, some of the data might be recoverable.
My hosting provider replaced ...

I have a HP ProLiant MicroServer Gen 8 box. I installed a 4tb drive and created a simple array. The raid controller saw the entire drive. I then used IP 6.1 to install Windows Server 2012 Standard. IP ...

Product name: LSI SAS3041E
Is it possible to check the status of the rebuild? At the moment I only see that the raid is rebuilding/syncing from the lsi_log script, /var/log/vmkernel.log and vSphere ...

Exist any incompatibility between an existing virtual drive created on LSI MegaRAID 9240-4i SAS/SATA Controller with RAID1 and the ZFS filesystem?
I tried to make mirror(2xSATA HDD 300Gb) on freebsd ...